Aggie Horticulture

09/09/2026

52 episodes. One full year of The W**e Lab!

For this special episode what better topic than one especially close to home: Texas w**e!

Texas is a fascinating place to grow grapes and make w**e. It's enormous, climatically complicated, sometimes difficult, and still remarkably young as a modern w**e region. In this episode, we talk about how the industry developed, where the grapes actually grow, why vineyards and w**eries can be hundreds of miles apart, which varieties are finding their place here, and what makes Texas w**e distinctly Texas.

Cheers to year two!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2519422/episodes/19755691

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Texas is far too large and diverse to have a single w**e climate, grape or style. In this episode of The W**e Lab, Andreea travels through the state’s major w**e-growing regions, from the High Plains and Hill Country to North, West and Gulf Coast ...

09/06/2026

The September Garden Checklist is here! Check out Aggie Horticulture’s Facebook live video from Friday at 1 PM for more information!

09/04/2026

09/02/2026

Are you looking to start your own fruit tree orchard or berry patch? Thinking about going commercial or maybe keeping it for your own personal bounty? Register for the Texas New Fruit Growers Conference this October 15th and 16th in Rosenburg, TX!

A day and a half of intensive and hands-on learning perfect for individuals with no previous farming or food production experience!

Go to tx.ag/2026conference register!

09/02/2026

Brazos AgriLife Horticulture September 2026 Programs - https://mailchi.mp/f6967302123f/brazos-extension-horticulture-news-10609359

09/02/2026

For thousands of years, w**emakers have been trying to solve the same problems: w**es that were too acidic, cloudy, unstable, oxidized, or simply didn't taste very good. The solutions, however, could get interesting.

Ancient w**es were treated with seawater, pine resin, herbs, honey, cedar oil, powdered marble, gypsum, ashes and, in some cases, dangerously, lead. Later w**emakers clarified w**e with egg whites, fish swim bladders, milk proteins and even bullock's blood.

In this episode of The W**e Lab, we travel through roughly 8,000 years of people trying to “fix” w**e. Along the way, we look at what these strange additions were supposed to accomplish, the chemistry that sometimes made them surprisingly effective, and the practices that survived into modern w**emaking.

From ancient aromatized w**es to modern vermouth and from powdered marble to today's calcium carbonate, some historical ideas are much less bizarre than they first appear.

Others involve bullock's blood.

Those are harder to defend.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2519422/episodes/19713696

08/25/2026

Registration link active!! The 4th Annual Horticultural Sciences Field Day is October 2nd! Register now as spots are limited.

Crops featured include; Pecan • Peach • Apricot • W**e Grape • Table Grape • Muscadine • Pear • Asian Persimmon • Kiwifruit • Pineapple Guava • Fig • Blackberry • Potato • Pepper • Melon • Bald Cypress • Prairie Coneflower • Hibiscus • Moringa • And various other ornamentals

Link for registration: https://agriliferegister.tamu.edu/hort-ev-076

08/22/2026

Here are Dr. Larry Stein’s tips on preparing your fall gardens! Check out Aggie Horticulture’s facebook live video from yesterday at 1 PM for more information!

08/21/2026

https://www.kbtx.com/2026/08/07/weekend-gardener-cpr-tips-summer-plant-care/

A Texas A&M AgriLife expert is urging gardeners to think “CPR” when it comes to protecting plants during the summer heat.